Friday, December 21, 2012

This upcoming sketchwalk will be in favour of the people living in the east because we will be sketching around Bedok! It's a pretty busy and big neighbourhood. We will meet at the Bedok Food Centre just beside Bedok Mrt Station at 930am. You can have your breakfast there before the event (or eat and draw when the sketching starts like some of you like to do) From the food centre, we will hand out highlighted locations for you to draw and explore so you can head for all the places that are famous in Bedok.

You will be able to submit the sketches done in this sketchwalk to Epigram to be included in the upcoming "I Love Bedok" book. Yes, it's in the same series as the "I love Toa Payoh" book. Only the best sketches will be chosen for the book so do as many as you can and submit them! You will get 1 complimentary copy if 1 drawing gets into the book. And 2 copies if 3 or more drawings gets featured.(all files sent to Jocelyn using yousendit or youtransfer at jocelyn@epigrambooks.sg)

We will have just 3 groups this time + 1 special ah-hoc afternoon group (see below).

We will meet back at the hawker centre again (this may change if we find a quieter location) at 12:30pm for a show and tell session before lunch.

See you guys there!

Group 1

BEDOK INTERCHANGE

Bedok MRT entrance (on Bus Interchange side)

Very busy area. There is a regular blind busker here who starts playing from evening. Said to have good voice.

Bedok Bus Interchange and surrounds

There are some iconic places at the interchange itself that I think should be documented. One is the flower shop, the other is a medicine shop that sells really inexpensive toiletries. And further in there's the wet market and lots of mom and pop shops (I'd recommend one called Kian Wee Stationery Shop -- has those old school toys too!)

Bedok Interchange Food Centre (Blk 207 New Upper Changi Road)

- Goreng Pisang stall (back corner stall)

- Bedok Chwee Kueh, #01-53

- Jian Bo Shui Kueh, #01-24

- Selegie Soya Bean / Beancurd, #01-46

- Famous Bedok porridge near interchange - ??

Current construction of Bedok Residences –Huge site worth recording, cranes and all!

Princess Theatre building – v old.

Group 2

BEDOK TOWN CENTRE

Bedok Public LibraryThis was the first solar powered library. Might be good for sketches to catch top-view down (if possible?).

Bedok Adventure Park

Blk 216 Market and Food Centre (technically Bedok North St 1)

Hon Ni Kitchen Nasi Lemak (closed on Sun)

Chris’s Kway Chap, #01-80

Rui Xing Coffee (kopi and toast), #01-42

Mixed rice stall ($2 only!) facing road, always with long queues

And any other neighbourhood stores that catch artists’ attention

Group3

New Upper Changi Road / Bedok North Road

Bedok Swimming Complex

Bedok Sports Hall

Bedok Stadium

Bedok Badminton Hall

Bedok Tennis Centre

Bedok Community Club (across road from swimming pool)

ADHOC GROUP

BEDOK SOUTH

Bedok South Ave 1

Bedok South Road Market and Food Centre (Blk 16)

Ah Wah Rojak, #01-197

Hill Street Char Kway Teow, #01-187

Blk 18 HDB old-style long block

This is next to food centre, and good angles to sketch from – the ground here is all red tiled.

Temasek Junior College (I don’t think this is drawable from outside, so it is optional)

favourite art quotes

"I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious." Andrew Wyeth

"I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies." Le Corbusier

"If people knew how hard I have had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all." Michelangelo

"From the time I was six, I was in the habit of sketching things I saw around me, and around the age of fifty, I began to work in earnest, producing numerous designs. It was not until after my seventieth year, however, that I produced anything of significance. At the age of seventy-three, I began to grasp the underlying structure of birds and animals, insects and fish, and the way trees and plants grow. Thus, if I keep up my efforts, I will have an even better understanding when I am eighty, and by ninety will have penetrated to the heart of things. At one hundred, I may reach a level of divine understanding, and if I live a decade beyond that, everything I paint-every dot and line-will be alive. I ask the god of longevity to grant me a life long enough to prove this true." Hokusai, postscript to One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji [translated by Carol Morland]

"I'm glad I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death." Degas

"The artist is primarily a visual person. I have always believed that there is no essential difference between the basic visual relationships that concern the fine artist, the graphic artist, the industrial designer, and the architect. The difference is in the degree of complexity of visual organization demanded by each situation. Beyond that, there are the materials and techniques of each area. I am convinced that there is a visual discipline suitable for all of these areas. It is based on the exciting concept that there can be order and structure to the organization of visual expression." Rowena Reed Kostellow

"I've always rated doodles as a method to capture or generate solutions to a creative problem. I also doodle in meetings and although refused to be intimidated into giving up, I always felt very slightly guilty. No one ever asked me to actually stop. I suspect they were caught between the belief that I wasn't paying attention and the desire to enjoy the final results. Anyway its good that some scientist thinks it helps retain information. Why do scientists tot up the numbers and announce the result like they've discovered something new? . . . Most creatives I know are aware of the value of doodling and many have given thought to the mechanics and psychology behind it. None, that I know anyway, felt the need to publish an academic paper though." Alan Scott